"Two Years of Vacation" is Jules Verne’s adventure novel, first published in 1888. It belongs to the cycle "Extraordinary Voyages" and is an adventure genre.
Fifteen boys aged from eight to fourteen from the boarding school "Cherman" in New Zealand decide to spend their vacation on a sea journey. At night the children are left alone on a drifting ship and are caught in a storm. The boys are swept out into the open sea, and on March 10, 1860 they land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Unusual vacations begin—lasting only until February 25, 1862, when the crew returned home…